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«In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.»
Author: St. John of the Cross
| Keywords:
draw, draw near, enlightenment, immediately, instruction, near, receive, the Enlightenment, tribulation, tribulations, with confidence
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Education
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aim, as many, breed, citizenry, dissent, dissenting, dissents, enlightenment, individuals, level, originality, public, public education, put down, reduce, safe, spread, standard, the Enlightenment
«Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.»
«Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
enlightenment, force, knowing, mastering, needs, requires, self, strength, the Enlightenment, the self, wisdom
«Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.»
Author: M. Scott Peck
(Author, psychiatrist)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
enlightenment, nirvana, persistent
«The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
curing, enlightenment, etc., etc, jet propulsion, propulsion, splash, splashed, splashes, splashing, splitting, The Genius, tranquilizer, tranquilizers
«It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
enlightenment, repetition, statement, usher, ushering, ushering in, ushers, usher in
«There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
enlightenment, the Enlightenment
«If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
beer, bet, drinking, enlightenment, nose, shoot, Shoot Out, total
«There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.»
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